Dic Philippines Inc.

DIC Corporation manufactures and sells printing inks, organic pigments, and synthetic resins worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Printing Inks, Fine Chemicals, Polymers, Compounds, and Application Materials. The Printing Inks segment manufactures printing inks, such as offset inks, gravure inks, flexo inks, can coatings, news inks, packaging adhesives, and printing supplies. The Fine Chemicals segment offers general purpose pigments for printing inks, coatings, and plastics; functional pigments for color filters, inkjet printers, color toners, and cosmetics; metal carboxylates; sulphur chemicals (lubricant additives); thin-film transistor liquid crystals (LCs); and supertwisted nematic LCs. The Polymers segment provides acrylic, amino, epoxy, methacrylate, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, polyurethane, unsaturated polyester, ultraviolet curable, polystyrene/styrene-based, and waterborne resins; and alkylphenols, fluorochemicals, plasticizers, and firefighting foam products. The Compounds segment offers liquid compounds consisting of jet inks, fiber and textile colorants, artificial leather colorants, high-performance coatings and adhesive materials, coatings for optical films, and inks for printed electronics; and solid compounds, such as polyphenylene sulfide and high-performance compounds, plastic colorants, and high-performance optical materials. The Application Materials segment provides industrial adhesive tapes, hollow-fiber membranes and modules, magnetic tapes and coated sheets, coextruded multilayer films, health foods and natural colorants, decorative boards, interior housing products, coating for building materials, decorative sheets and films, processed sheet and bulk molding compounds, and molded plastic products. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated and changed its name to DIC Corporation in April 2008. DIC Corporation was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.